Marc Christian S.

Enelo

1. What is iBGP Route Reflection?

Route reflectors (RR) are one method to get rid of the full-mesh of IBGP peers in your
network. The other method is BGP confederations.
The route reflector allows all IBGP speakers within your autonomous network to learn
about the available routes without introducing loops.

https://networklessons.com/bgp/bgp-route-reflector

2. How does iBGP solves the full mesh configuration problem?

In IBGP, all spine and leaf switches reside in a single AS, as shown in Figure 6-6. In
BGP, IBGP peers must be fully meshed to ensure connectivity between IBGP peers.
Full-mesh is required in IBGP because full-mesh can prevent routing loops in IBGP.
IBGP requires that IBGP speakers do not transmit the route prefixes learned from IBGP
peers to other IBGP peers. Therefore, IBGP peers must be fully meshed. If there are n
routers in an AS, n (n-1)/2 IBGP connections need to be established. If there are a lot of
IBGP peers, many network resources and CPU resources will be consumed. BGP
confederation or route reflector (RR) can be used between IBGP peers to solve this
problem.
https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/doc/EDOC1100023542?
section=j012&topicName=bgp-network-design

3. What are the different peer types in Route Reflection?

EBGP neighbor.
IBGP client neighbor.
IBGP non-client neighbor.
https://networklessons.com/bgp/bgp-route-reflector
4. What are the necessary configuration(s) for Route reflection to work?
R2(config)#router bgp 123
R2(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.12.1 remote-as 123
R2(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.12.1 route-reflector-client

R2(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.23.3 remote-as 123

R2(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.23.3 route-reflector-client
R1(config)#router bgp 123
R1(config-router)#network 1.1.1.1 mask 255.255.255.255
https://networklessons.com/bgp/bgp-route-reflector

5. Replicate the topology below using GNS3.

6. Implement route reflection on this topology.
7. Final result/output should be each router should be able to reach other LANs
(loopback interfaces)
8. Put your GNS3 project folder and answer to the questions into an archive.
9. Upload your archived GNS3 folder here.